📚 BibTexTools

BibTexTools is a handy tool to parse and manipulate BibTex bibliographies and references. BibTexTools can abbreviate author names and resolve incomplete references based on the reference title and the computer science bibliography dblp.

If you encounter any error or parsing mistake, feel free to open a new issue.

⚙️ Installation:

BibTexTools can be installed using pip and this repository:

pip install git+https://github.com/jueri/BibTexTools.git

Alternatively, you can clone this repository and install it from the source.

1. Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/jueri/BibTexTools.git

2. Change working directory: cd BibTexTools

3. install with: pip install .

📖 Usage:

BibTexTools provides the following commands:

Usage: BibTexTools [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

Options:
  --help  Show this message and exit.

Commands:
  abbreviate-authors  Abbreviate the author names of a BibTex bibliography
  clean               Clean a BibTex bibliography

A bibliography file as input and an output destination need to be specified for all operations.

Abbreviate-authors:

The abbreviate-authors command will abbreviate all author names from a bibliography. The middle names are also included if the -m flag is set.

Usage: BibTexTools abbreviate-authors [OPTIONS] INPUT OUTPUT

  Abbreviate the author names of a BibTex bibliography

Options:
  -m, --middle_names  Include the middle names
  --help              Show this message and exit.

Clean:

The clean command may help resolve incomplete references by retrieving high-quality references from dblp.

Usage: BibTexTools clean [OPTIONS] INPUT OUTPUT

  Clean a BibTex bibliography

Options:
  -k, --keep_keys     Keep original keys
  -u, --keep_unknown  Keep entries that can not be cleaned
  --help              Show this message and exit.

✨ Example:

Imagine you found an interesting paper online and saved it to your collection. Unluckily, in addition to the paper itself, you only got incomplete metadata like this:

@article{devlin2018bert,
  title={Bert: Pre-training of deep bidirectional transformers for language understanding},
  author={Devlin, and Chang, Ming-Wei and Lee, Kenton and Toutanova, Kristina},
  year={2018}
}

BibTexTools will extract the title of the paper and retrieve complete BibTeX metadata from dblp, resolving the reference into:

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/naacl/DevlinCLT19,
  author    = {Jacob Devlin and
               Ming{-}Wei Chang and
               Kenton Lee and
               Kristina Toutanova},
  editor    = {Jill Burstein and
               Christy Doran and
               Thamar Solorio},
  title     = {{BERT:} Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language
               Understanding},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of
               the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies,
               {NAACL-HLT} 2019, Minneapolis, MN, USA, June 2-7, 2019, Volume 1 (Long
               and Short Papers)},
  pages     = {4171--4186},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  year      = {2019},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/n19-1423},
  doi       = {10.18653/v1/n19-1423},
  timestamp = {Fri, 06 Aug 2021 00:41:31 +0200},
  biburl    = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/naacl/DevlinCLT19.bib},
  bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
}